List of ships of the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique

This is a list of ships owned by the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, commonly known as the French Line.

Name Built CGT service Type Length Beam GRT Fate Notes Image
Abd el-Kader (fr) 1880 1880-1922 Liner 312 ft. 33.6 ft. 1,579 GRT Scrapped 1922
Administrateur en Chef Thomas 1943 1945-1948 Cargo 423.9 ft. 56 ft. 7,049 GRT Total loss 1950 Ran aground on Goodwin Sands and broke in two on December 23, 1950.
Afrique 1872 1881-1901 Liner 246 ft. 30.2 ft. 1,072 GRT Scrapped 1911 First of eight sister ships sold to CGT 1880. Renamed Afrika 1901.
Ajaccio 1872 1881-1900 Liner 246 ft. 30.2 ft. 1,084 GRT Total loss 1900 Sister of Afrique. Ran aground at Marseilles and capsized, 25 Jan 1901
Alabama 1931 1931-1954 Cargo 424.5 ft. 54.8 ft. 5,645 GRT Scrapped 1960. Taken by Nazis 1940. Sold to Hong Kong 1954, renamed Ocean Trader.
Alaska 1922 1922-1939 Cargo 413.3 ft. 55 ft. 5,398 GRT Sunk 1939. Collided with English freighter Dotterell, 14 Nov 1939.
Alexandre Bixio 1880 1880-1905 Cargo 300 ft. 36 ft. 1,934 GRT Total loss 1905 Ran aground at the mouth of the Loire, 24 Jan 1905. No casualties.
Alice 1872 1876-1905 Collier 229.9 ft. 31.2 ft. 767 GRT Sold 1905 Sold to Italy, renamed Aquila, then Luigino. No record after 1917.
Amérique 1865 1873–95 Liner 393.7 ft. 43.9 ft. 3,801 GRT Total loss 1895 Stranded at the mouth of the Magdalma, 28 Jan 1895
Angoulême 1919 1940 Cargo 250.9 ft. 43.5 ft. 2,451 GRT Ceded 1948 Blocked at Panama Canal 1940, sent to New Orleans. Ceded to Italy 1948
Antilles (fr) 1913 1913-1937 Liner 278.9 ft. 38 ft. 2,073 GRT Scrapped 1937 Commissioned with white hull but also depicted in black.
Antilles 1952 1953–71 Ocean liner 568.3 ft. 80 ft. 19,828 GRT Wrecked 1971 Sister of Flandre.
Arcadia 1909 1909-1934 Cargo 314.2 ft. 43.9 ft. 3,108 GRT Scrapped 1934 Formerly Basse-Terre. Converted to refrigerated ship 1913.
Ardeche 1890 1915–25 Cargo 314.2 ft. 42 ft. 2,770 GRT Scrapped 1925 Formerly Maurechal Lyatey. Served African coastal route.
Ardennes 1920 1922–38 Cargo 311.7 ft. 43.5 ft. 2,274 GRT Sold 1938 Purchased 1922. Later sold to Hong Kong 1950, scrapped 1963.
Argentan 1943 1946–54 Cargo 416 ft. 56.9 ft. 7,176 GRT Ceded 1954 Liberty ship built as Gabriel Franchere. Scrapped 1971.
Arica 1921 1921–42 Cargo 425 ft. 54.8 ft. 5,390 GRT Sunk 1942 Seized 1941, torpedoed and sunk by the German sub U-160 on November 6, 1942.
Ariege 1920 1935-1938 Cargo 311.7 ft. 43.5 ft. 2,274 GRT Sold 1938 Sold to Turkey 1950. Scrapped 1975.
Arizona
Arkansas
Athlete
Atlantic Champagne
Atlantique
Atlantic Cognac
Atlas
Aube
Aunis
Auray
Auvergne
Avranches
Avreyon
Azemmour
Balata
Balata
Baltique
Barfleur
Barracuda
Basse-Terre
Basse-Terre
Bastia
Bayeaux
Beauvais
Belain D'Esnambuc
Bernard
Bernieres
Biskra
Bonifacio
Bordeaux
Borodine
Bou-Regreg
Bresle
Brest
Bretagne
Cacique
Cacique
Caldera
Calendonien
Californie
Canada
Cambronne
Canche
Cantal
Cap-Pinede
Capitaine Coullon
Capitaine Winckler
Caracoli
Caraïbe
Caraïbe
Caraïbe
Caravelle
Caravelle
Caravelle
Carbet
Carbet
Carimare
Caroline
Carthage
Cassidaigne
Cavalier de la Salle
Champlain 1931 1932-1940 Ocean liner 641 ft. 82 ft. 28,124 GRT Sunk 1940
Champlain
Charles-Quint
Charles-Roux
Chicago
Colombie
Colombie 1931 1931-1940,

1946-1964

Ocean liner 520 ft. 66 ft. Sold to Typaldos Lines in 1964. Scrapped in 1974

Commandant-Quéré
Comte-de Nice
Corse
Cuba
Cyrnos
Darrien
Duc de Bragance
Duc d'Aumale
De La Salle
De Grasse 1924 1924-1940, 1947-1953 Ocean liner 552.1 ft. 71.4 ft. 17,759 GRT (1924) 18,359 GRT (1932), 18,435 GRT (1947) Scrapped 1962
De Grasse 1956 1971-1973 Ocean liner 578.3 ft. 72.2 ft. 18,739 GRT Sold in 1973, later burned out and capsized in 1980. Purchased from Norwegian America Line
Espagne 1909 1910-1932 Ocean liner 537 ft. 8 in. 60 ft. 8 in. 11,155 GRT Scrapped 1934
Eugène-Péreire
Europe
Ferdinand-de-Lesseps
Figuig 1903 1921-1934 Ocean liner 350 ft. 45.2 ft. 3,655 GRT Scrapped 1934
Flandre
Flandre 1951 1952-1967 Ocean liner 581.6 ft. 80.2 ft. 20,469 GRT Destroyed by fire 1994 Sister of Antilles.
Floride
Fournel
France
France 1910 1912-1935 Ocean liner 711 ft. 11 in. 75.6 ft. 23,666 GRT (1912), 23,769 GRT (1924) Scrapped 1936 Only French four-funnel liner
France 1960 1962-1974 Ocean liner 1,035 ft. 8 in. 110 ft. 7 in. 66,343 GRT Scrapped 2008 Later SS Norway of Norwegian Cruise Line
Fred-Scamaroni
Fred-Scamaroni
Frédéric-Frank
Gascogne
Général Chanzy (fr)
Gouverneur Général Chanzy
Gouverneur Général De Gueydon
Gouverneur Général Grévy
Gouverneur Général Jonnart'
Grandcamp
Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe
Guyane 1955 7,062 GRT Sold 1977
Haïti 1914 1914-1951 Liner 6,288 GRT Scrapped 1951 Renamed Marrakech scrapped 1951
Île de France 1927 1927-1959 Ocean liner 791 ft. 91 ft. 43,153 GRT Scrapped 1959 Partially sunk for the 1960 film The Last Voyage
Illinois 1917 1926-1934 Cargo 400.3 ft 51.6 ft 5,911 GRT Sunk 1940 Torpedoed and sunk by U-122, June 1940
Impératrice Eugenie
Ingenieur Général Harbleicher
Isaac-Pereire
Kléber
L'Aquitaine
Le Bourdonnais
La Bourgogne 1885
La Bretagne 1885
La Champagne (fr)
La Corse
La Dives
La Gascogne (fr)
La Lorraine (fr)
La Navarre 1892 1893-1924 Ocean liner 471 ft. 50.5 ft. 6,648 GRT Scrapped 1925
La Provence 1905
La Savoie (fr)
La Touraine 1890
Labrador
Lafayette
Lafayette (1911)
Lafayette (fr) 1929
Lamoricière
Le Calvados 1890
Liberté 1928 1950-1962 Ocean liner 936.7 ft. 101.7 ft. 49,746 GRT Scrapped 1963 Awarded from Germany as war prize
Lieutenant J Le Meur 1943
Lou Cettori
Louisiane
Macoris
Malvina
Maréchal Bugeaud
Maréchal Canrobert
Maroc
Marrakech
Martinique
Martinique 1883 1903-1931 Ocean liner 380.5 ft. 48 ft. 2 in. 4,241 GRT Scrapped 1932
Méditerranée
Meknès
Mexique 1914
Minotaure 1918
Mohamed Es Sadock
Moïse
Mont-Blanc 1899 1915-1917 Cargo ship 320 ft. 44.8 ft. 3,279 GRT Destroyed by ammunition explosion, 1917
Montreal
Napoléon
Napoléon III 1865
Niagara (fr)
Normandie 1932 1935-1939 Liner 962 ft. 35.9 ft. 79,280 GRT later 83,423 GRT Total loss 1942 Burned and capsized at the dockside during troopship conversion
Nouveau Monde
Olinde Rodrigues
Oregon
Oudjda
Panama
Paris 1916 1921-1939 Liner 768 ft. 85 ft. 34,569 GRT Burned out and capsized in 1939, scrapped in 1947. Her derelict wrecked caused Liberte to sink after she broke her moorings and collided with the wreck of Paris

Pellerin de Latouche
Pensylvanie 1917
Péreire
Pérou
Pologne
Présiident Dal Piaz
Puerto Rico
Québec
Rochambeau 1911
Roussillon
Saint-Augustin
Saint-Domingue
Saint-Domingue
Saint-Germain
Saint-Laurent 1866
Saint-Raphaël
Saint-Simon
Salvador
Sampiero Corso
Savoie II
Suffren 1901
Tampico
Timgad
Titan 1889
Utah
Vénézuela
Vénézuela
Vera Cruz
Versailles
Ville d'Ajaccio
Ville d'Alger
Ville D'Alger
Ville d'Oran
Ville d'Oran
Ville de Barcelone
Ville De Bône
Ville de Bordeaux
Ville de Bordeaux
Ville de Brest
Ville de Madrid
Ville de Marseille
Ville de Marseille
Ville de Mostaganem
Ville de Naples
Ville de Paris
Ville de Rome
Ville de Saint-Nazaire (fr)
Ville de Sfax
Ville de Tanger
Ville de Tunis
Ville de Tunis (fr)
Ville du Havre 1865
Volubilis
Washington (fr)

See also